A Reflection on Glossolalia

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I think I just understood how it could really be a gift from God, after last Sid Roth video I saw.

1) Sid Roth calls it "a personal prayer language" - it does not have the even same function as the type with prescriptions in Corinthians, where someone speaking a language he hasn't learned, or two of them, need to shut up while a second or third person (knowing or even better an inverse miracle) interprets what they say.

It would be impressive to a Gael, from the Gaeltacht, if I started to recite the Breastplate in Gaelic (I don't even know it in English, and my known facts about Gaelic is about getting pronunciation right and very little more) and if then another person who was known to be ignorant of Gaelic (both me and the other known so by the Gael) translating a non-standard, prose version of the Breastplate in his own words, in a language all three of us knew, English or French, for instance. That's the edification St. Paul talks about, and it's really edification IN CHURCH.

Like before a bishop, a priest, a deacon, who can then testify the Gael converted because he saw me speaking Gaelic.

Sid Roth talks about something else. You want to pray openly, so as to avoid distractions. You want to pray loudly, so as to avoid interior distractions. You want to pray loudly so as to be confident before God. But praying loudly is de facto also praying before other men. And as confident as you are about your exact prayer before God, as shy you are about it before men (well, the little girl who prayed to Jesus to heal a heart wasn't, unlike Moses who asked for a spokesman, she didn't have long social experience). So, God gives you a means to move your lips in prayer, but not in muteness, you do that, the other guys around (who aren't exactly Christians all of the time) don't know your very personal prayer, and the actual syllables you speak vocally aren't what matters most, they actually basically help you to shut off the other people and concentrate only on God. In medical terms, God allows you to use the alpha state for this aspect of personal prayer.

Asuza Street actually isn't a Church, the New Testament temple and priesthood, it's kind of a "training ground" for all or any spiritual battles one may have to go through in more serious situations.

Need to pray "in a private prayer language" in a Commie prison, when you tried to smuggle a Bible and got caught? Well, maybe train that in Asuza Street first.

As Asuza Street isn't a Church, the words of St. Paul are not applicable.

Police candidates don't shoot at targets on parades before the Prefect of Paris on July 14 (typically). They do shoot at targets when doing gun training.

Imagining the words of St. Paul to apply to Asuza street is like imagining the gun training needs to look like a parade.

2) I have actually just described the Rosary.

Imagine St. Bridget had an itch in certain parts while Ulf Gudmarsson was away and wanted to pray for this to cease. She being in a room with other people. God could put her in the kind of trance called a rapture or she could (partly that) put herself in a trance by praying the Rosary. If she was in a rapture, she wouldn't see the other people any more. If she was in a lighter trance in a Rosary, she would disguise the exact inner prayer she had from other men, by the outer sound of "Hell thigh Maria, thu full aff Naad" or "Ave Maria Gratia Plena" while obviously being exactly as candid and confident and few-words simple and direct before God as Christ required in Matthew 6:7.

Same thing would happen to someone in Asuza Street with a similar request and using the "private prayer language" ...

And if Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto had to pray the Rosary in a prison, in a country with Catholics oppressed by Freemasons, often as Atheist as Commies, where they were (unrealistically and abusively, but at their young age and lowest class education level they had inadequate grounds to dismiss it) threatened with death ... yeah, they needed a training ground too.

And while you pray the Rosary aloud together in Church buildings, you also do NOT do so during Holy Mass (St. Paul's "in Church" probably refers less to "inside hallowed buildings," which may have to be abandoned and changed during persecution, than to "at Holy Mass").

3) Pentecostalism is also named, as it so began "Asuza Street Revival"

Asuza Street is ... let me state the obvious : a Street.

A Revival is, a Reformation against the Church that came from a Reformation against the Church that came from a Reformation against Rome, or perhaps one generation more.

A street is a kind of Road. And "all roads lead to Rome" (the saying goes, and it was a fact about the road network in the Roman Empire - of which the US is kind of an avatar - as much as in France all roads lead to Paris).

I invite Sid Roth to consider, whatever "prayer language" he likes whether Asuza Street shall also "lead to Rome" (sweet home).

Would you get to Topeka where the Pope is being buried, he died August 2nd, a few days ago?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Our lady of Snows
5.VIII.2022

Romae, in Exquiliis, Dedicatio Basilicae sanctae Mariae ad Nives.